Dear AoIR-ists, Mia Consalvo and I are *extremely* proud and pleased to announce the publication of the Handbook of Internet Studies from Wiley-Blackwell - first of all, because the volume features the impressive work of many AoIRists. The book is an introduction to the field and assessment of current research in Internet Studies, providing history and context as well as commentary and debate about where the field is heading and what key issues must be addressed in future work. The volume is comprehensive in scope, addressing the development of internet studies in areas including the history of the field, methods for interdisciplinary study, youth and teens online, politics, health communication, games and virtual worlds, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, social networks, and much, much more. The list of contributors is even more impressive-- we have contributions from Maria Bakardijeva, Naomi Baron, Nancy Baym, Sandra Braman, Janne Bromseth, Niels Brügger, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Elizabeth Buchanan, Heidi Campbell, Laurel Dyson, Lorna Heaton, Steve Jones, Lori Kendall, Sonia Livingstone, Marika Lüders, P. David Marshall, Susanna Paasonen, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Jenny Sundén, TL Taylor, Barry Wellman, Deborah Wheeler, and Alexis Wichowski. For more information about the book, please check the Amazon page at: <http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Internet-Studies-Handbooks-Communication/dp/ 1405185880/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299561410&sr=1-1-fkmr0> We congratulate these scholars and researchers for what we find to be definitive contributions to internet studies as an emerging field. We also see the book as a distinctive and, we think, eloquent artifact of AoIR, as it documents and demonstrates the kinds of collaboration, critical dialogue, and collegial support fostered by AoIR as crucial conditions for the interdisciplinary and international work required for internet studies. We are very grateful indeed to our contributors and all who help make AoIR work in these ways for making this volume possible. Enjoy! - charles and Mia charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce@hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23